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...city where tax officials had literally left returns strewn across the basement of a city building. Under Williams, vendors got paid. Tax refunds got issued on time. The morgue got cold again. Residents in both white and black Washington began to thank him for little things like timely trash collection, even when he alone wasn't responsible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Tony Williams Save D.C.? | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

That's certainly the case with the late-'70s metropolitan New York division, in Mark Christopher's 54. We are yanked back to Studio 54, the trash-glam Manhattan disco where, for a few years, simply everyone who did anyone was desperate to be seen. They had a blast at this all-night carnival of drugs, booze, sex, and a lot of pretty people who tawked funny. And the funniest was 54's co-owner and host Steve Rubell, the Elsa Maxwell of sleaze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: That '70s Club | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

...even understand they're being punished. "Even in jail, kids want their candy bars, their pillows and pajamas," says lawyer Mones. "They wonder where their cheeseburgers are." It's also crucial to realize these kids will get out someday. "The important thing to do is not to trash these kids," says Carl Bell, "with disregard for their need for attachment, school, mental health evaluation and support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For They Know Not What They Do? | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

Then things got weirder. The Dempseys separated, and rumors spread that Kelly was having financial problems. She wore dark sunglasses and started mowing her own lawn. For a single woman, she was also dumping a lot of trash, including a good number of beer cans. And then there were the men who would knock on neighbors' doors by mistake at odd hours, asking about massages. A young woman who rented the mansion's carriage house said last week that she suspected something rotten "from the second day I lived here," and that not all the chaps who mistakenly came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Little Whorehouse In Jersey | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

...White Trash Heroes Archers of Loaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Aug. 24, 1998 | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

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